MOROCCO: Cleaning Up Tangier

One by one they were disappearing or going
straightthose worldly cities that make so glamorous a backdrop for TV
thrillers. Now it was the turn of Tangier.

Along the gleaming Boulevard Pasteur the luxury shops were empty, and
the innumerable stalls of the city's moneychangers were closed in
protest. Unexpectedly Morocco's King Mohammed V had issued a dahir
(royal decree) revoking the charter he had granted Tangier in 1957
after his government took over the international free city from its
eight-nation administration. At the time, the King had promised that
the "free...